Improvement in seed and g-uano-dlstribttters



CzdI'rlI-ji Ctat 51 EDWARD BLAGKLIDGRUF ABBEVILLE, ALABAMA.

Letters Patent No. 107,436, v(lated September-20, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED AND." Guano-DISTRIBTER'S.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern.:

' Be it known vthat l, EDWAnDjBLACKLIDGm'of- Abbeville, in the countyof Henry and State of Ala.- bama, have invented a new and improved Seed- Planter and Guano-Distributer; and I vdo hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereOQwhich will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference. being".- had to the accompanying drawing formingv part of this' specication, in which- Figure l represents a side elevation, partly lin scc tion, of my improved seed and guauo-planter.

Figure 2 is a vertical transverse section ot' the same.

Figure 3 is a' detail side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspomling parts.

This. invention relates to improvement in the class of seed-planters which is provided with two hoppers placed side by side; and

'lhe improvement cousistsin a certain construction andt arrangement of wheel-agitators, seed-hoppers, and seed-slides, as specified inthe claim.

A in the drawing represents the main snjrporting' wheel of the planter'.

It is mounted upon an axle, B, which has its bearings in and is t-ted through two hoppers or boxes, C

The size of this slot is regulated by a slide, 1,-which can be adjusted by means of a suit-able screw, c.

This screw is swiveled inears projecting from a pivoted spring lever, f, by means of which the slide can be entirely closed or opened, when desired.-

The apparatus thus constructed can `be cheaply lnl a'de, and is not liable to get out of order by the accum nlation ot' dust on any of its parts.

Sui table furiowing or covering-tools maybe applied to the instrument onany desired part of the same.v

lhe draft-bar D is or may be forked atit-s rear end, to he securedto both hoppers.

1 am aware, as hereinbefore intimated, that the arrangement of a wheel centrallyhetwecn two seed-hoppers is. not new, but such wheels have not formed the `only support of the planter upon the ground, norhave the agitating-armsend partitions been similarly arranged.

ltis desirable to drop the seed and guano simultaneously, and to deliver them mingled-together inthe furrow, as well as'to provide separate adjusting devices for regulating the quantity ofeach discharge.

I am enabled to adjust the seed-slide with great nicety, by aid of screws, and, when desired, can instantly shut off the delivery of seed altogether.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim asnew and desire to secure by Letters'latent- l. 'lhe arrangement,` with the Slidell, of the pivoted lever f with the adjusting-screw c, working'in lugs of said lever 'and slide, as shown and described,- for the purpose speciiied.'

2. The arrangement of the tlxn'isporting-wheel A, agitator-s b, hub B, and separatevhoppers C, as. shown and described.

Witnesses: EDWARD BLAOKLIDGE.

J. H.`S1M0NT0N, J. A. OLENDINEN.. 

